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Alvarez, Julia
Yo!
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Undaunted Courage
Amis, Martin
The Information
Anderson, Joan
A Year by the Sea
Andrews, Gregg
Insane Sisters
Atwood, Margaret
The Robber Bride
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Auster, Paul
Mr. Vertigo
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Badami, Anita Rau
The Hero's Walk
Baldacci, David
Wish You Well
Balzac, Honore de
Cousin Bette
Bank, Melissa
The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Beattie, Ann
Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories
Bellow, Saul
The Adventures of Augie March
Herzog
Ravelstein
Benitez, Sandra
A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Berger, John
To the Wedding
Bernall, Misty
She Said Yes
Bernardo, Jose Raul
The Secret of the Bulls
Bible
The Five Books of Moses
Binstock, R.C.
Tree of Heaven
Bivona, Ginna Siena
Ida Mae Tutweiler and the Traveling Tea Party
Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Riven Rock
The Tortilla Curtain
Bradshaw, Gillian
The Beacon at Alexandria
Brookner, Anita
Hotel du Lac
Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Master & Margarita
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
The Secret Garden
Byatt, A.S.
Possession
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Campbell, Bebe Moore
Brothers and Sisters
Camus, Albert
The First Man
Carroll, Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
Carroll, Rebecca
I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like
Carter, Jimmy
Living Faith
Casanova, Giacomo
The Story of My Life
Castillo, Ana
Peel My Love Like an Onion
Cather, Willa
My Antonia
The Professor's House
The Song of the Lark
Chandler, Raymond
The Long Goodbye
Chang, Iris
The Rape of Nanking
Chapman, Fern Schumer
Motherland
Chopin, Kate
The Awakening
Cleghorn, Andrea
Rosie's Place
Coetzee, J.M.
Disgrace
Collins, Wilkie
The Woman in White
The Moonstone
Conway, Jill Ker
True North
The Road from Coorain
Cookson, Catherine
Kate Hannigan's Girl
Coyne, John
Living on the Edge
Cunningham, Michael
Flesh and Blood
The Hours
Currie, Ellen
Moses Supposes
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Dandicant, Edwidge
Breath, Eyes, Memory
The Farming of Bones
Davidson, Robyn
Tracks
Davies, Robertson
The Cunning Man
Fifth Business
de Bernieres, Louis
Corelli's Mandolin
Denby, David
Great Books
DeRosier, Linda Scott
Creeker: A Woman's Journey
Diamant, Anita
The Red Tent
Doig, Ivan
Bucking the Sun
Donald, David Herbert
Lincoln
Dorrestein, Renate
Unnatural Mothers
Doyle, Roddy
The Woman Who Walked into Doors
A Star Called Henry
Drury, Joan M.
Those Jordan Girls
Dubus, Andre
Dancing After Hours
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Eco, Umberto
The Island of the Day Before
Edwards, Louis
Ten Seconds
Eggers, Dave
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Evans, Richard Paul
The Carousel
The Christmas Box
Eve, Nomi
The Family Orchard
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Faulks, Sebastian
Birdsong
Feibleman, Peter
A Place Without Twilight
Fielding, Helen
Bridget Jones's Diary
Fishel, Elizabeth
Sisters
Ford, Ford Madox
The Fifth Queen
Ford, Richard
Independence Day
Foreman, Amanda
Georgiana
Forster, E. M.
Howard's End
A Room with a View
Frank, Anne
The Diary of a Young Girl
Frayn, Michael
Headlong
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Gaines, Ernest J.
A Lesson Before Dying
Gaines, Patrice
Laughing in the Dark
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Of Love and Other Demons
Gardner, Mary
Milkweed
Gedge, Pauline
Child of the Morning
Lady of the Reeds
Gibbons, Kaye
Charms for the Easy Life
Ellen Foster
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah
Hitler's Willing Executioners
Goldman, Francisco
The Long Night of White Chickens
Goldsmith, Martin
The Inextinguishable Symphony
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
No Ordinary Time
Wait Till Next Year
Gordimer, Nadine
None to Accompany Me
Gordon, Mary
The Shadow Man
Grimsley, Jim
Winter Birds
Groopman, Jerome, M.D.
The Measure of Our Days
Gulland, Sandra
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
Guterson, David
East of the Mountains
Snow Falling on Cedars
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Hammett, Dashiell
The Maltese Falcon
Hardy, Thomas
Jude the Obscure
Harr, Jonathan
A Civil Action
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Scarlet Letter
Hearon, Shelby
Life Estates
Hegi, Ursula
Salt Dancers
Stones from the River
Hendrie, Laura
Remember Me
Stygo
Henley, Patricia
Hummingbird House
Holland, Cecelia
Great Maria
Hugo, Victor
Les Miserables
Huston, Nancy
The Mark of the Angel
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I
Ishiguro, Kazuo
The Unconsoled
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J
James, Henry
The Portrait of a Lady
Jamison, Kay Redfield
An Unquiet Mind
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K
Karon, Jan
The Mitford Years Series
Kaysen, Susanna
Girl, Interrupted
Keneally, Thomas
Schindler's List
Kennedy, William
The Flaming Corsage
Kerouac, Jack
On the Road
Kittle, Katrina
Traveling Light
Kleiner, Gregg
Where River Turns to Sky
Kricorian, Nancy
Zabelle
Kurtz, Don
South of the Big Four
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Lamb, Wally
I Know This Much is True
Lanchester, John
Mr. Phillips
Lawrence, D. H.
Lady Chatterly's Lover
Lelewer, Nancy
Something's Not Right
Lethem, Jonathan
Motherless Brooklyn
Levenkron, Steven
The Luckiest Girl in the World
Llosa, Mario Vargas
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
In Praise of the Stepmother
Lott, Deborah A.
In Session
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M
MacDonald, Michael Patrick
All Souls
Mah, Adeline Yen
Falling Leaves
Watching the Tree
Makine, Andrei
Dreams of My Russian Summers
Malouf, David
Remembering Babylon
Martz, Sandra Haldeman
When I Am an Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple
Mason, Anita
Reich Angel
McCarthy, Cormac
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
McCort, Frank
Angela's Ashes
McCracken, Elizabeth
The Giant's House
McNeal, Tom
Goodnight Nebraska
Meade, Marion
Stealing Heaven
Meador, D.J.
Unforgotten
Melville, Herman
Moby Dick
Mendelsohn, Jane
I Was Amelia Earhart
Messud, Claire
The Last Life
Michener, Marian
Dreaming Under a Ton of Lizards
Millhauser, Steven
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Minot, Susan
Evening
Mirvis, Tova
The Ladies Auxiliary
Mitchison, Naomi
The Corn King and the Spring Queen
Mortimer, John
Paradise Postponed
Titmuss Regained
The Sound of Trumpets
Munro, Alice
The Love of a Good Woman
Open Secrets
Murakami, Haruki
Norwegian Wood
Murdoch, Iris
The Sea, the Sea
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Nattel, Lilian
The River Midnight
Nicol, Margaret
Enemy of the Average
Nordan, Lewis
Wolf Whistle
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O
O'Brien, Tim
In the Lake of the Woods
O'Faolain, Nuala
Are You Somebody?
Ondaatje, Michael
The English Patient
Orenstein, Peggy
Schoolgirls
Owen, Howard
Littlejohn
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Pallamary, Matthew J.
Land Without Evil
Paton, Alan
Cry, the Beloved Country
Peck, M. Scott
A Bed by the Window
Pensack, Robert, M.D. and Dwight Williams
Raising Lazarus
Philbrick, Nathaniel
In the Heart of the Sea
Phillips, Jayne Anne
Motherkind
Pietryzk, Leslie
Pears on a Willow Tree
Pollack, William
Real Boys
Power, Susan
The Grass Dancer
Prejean, Sister Helen
Dead Man Walking
Price, Reynolds
The Promise of Rest
Three Gospels
A Whole New Life
Proulx, E. Annie
Accordion Crimes
The Shipping News
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R
Reardon, Joan
M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child & Alice Waters
Reiken, Frederick
The Lost Legends of New Jersey
Rockcastle, Mary Francois
Rainy Lake
Rodgers, Joni
Sugar Land
Rogak, Lisa
Pretzel Logic
Rushdie, Salman
The Moor's Last Sigh
Russo, Richard
Nobody's Fool
Back to the Top
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Salter, James
Light Years
Santiago, Esmeralda
Almost a Woman
When I Was Puerto Rican
Sapphire
Push
Saracino, Mary
Finding Grace
Schami, Rafik
Damascus Nights
Schulman, Audrey
The Cage
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
The Fatigue Artist
Schwarz, Christina
Drowning Ruth
Scott, Joanna Catherine
The Luck Gourd Shop
Shields, Carol
Larry's Party
The Stone Diaries
Shields, Jody
The Fig Eater
Shreve, Anita
The Weight of Water
Sidhwa, Bapsi
Cracking India
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Gardens in the Dunes
Sills, Judith
Loving Men More, Needing Men Less
Simecka, Martin M.
Year of the Frog
Skibel, Joseph
A Blessing on the Moon
Slate, Jeff and David Rearden
Bloodsworth Island
Smiley, Jane
Moo
Smith, Dodie
I Capture the Castle
Soueif, Ahdaf
The Map of Love
Spiegelman, Art
Maus I
Starnes, Henry Grady
Summer at the Resort
Stegner, Wallace
Angle of Repose
Crossing to Safety
Stephens, Autumn
Wild Women
Strout, Elizabeth
Amy and Isabelle
Sullivan, Faith
The Cape Anne
The Empress of One
Sutin, Jack and Rochelle Sutin
Jack and Rochelle
Swift, Graham
Last Orders
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Tan, Amy
The Joy Luck Club
Taylor, Ruth Mattson
Evidence From Beyond
Thomas, William H., M.D.
Learning from Hannah
Thompson, Jim
The Killer Inside Me
Thomsen, Moritz
The Saddest Pleasure
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
This Earth of Mankind
Tsukiyama, Gail
The Language of Threads
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U
Ueland, Brenda
If You Want to Write
Undset, Sigrid
Kristin Lavransdatter
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Verghese, Abraham
My Own Country
Vida, Nina
Goodbye, Saigon
Vreeland, Susan
Girl in Hyacinth Blue
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Walker, Alice
The Same River Twice
Walker, Marianne
Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh
Walton, Lewis R.
Final Storm
Wesley, Mary
An Imaginative Experience
Wharton, Edith
The Age of Innocence
The House of Mirth
White, Bailey
Sleeping at the Starlite Motel
Williams, Donna
Nobody Nowhere
Winik, Marion
First Comes Love
Winton, Tim
The Riders
Wolfe, Thomas
Look Homeward, Angel
Wright, Bil
Sunday You Learn How to Box
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Yamanaka, Lois-Ann
Blu's Hanging
Yogananda, Paramahansa
Autobiography of a Yogi
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Zabytko, Irene
The Sky Unwashed
Zaroulis, Nancy
Call the Darkness Light
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